Towards understanding the moral reasoning process of senior chemical engineering students in process safety contexts |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Experiential Engineering Education, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States;2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States;3. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States;4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, United States;1. Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;2. Department of Statistics, Mathematical Analysis and Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;1. Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain;3. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain;4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain;5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;6. IQS School of Engineering, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain;7. Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, E-03801 Alcoy, Spain;1. Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri Lanka;2. Centre for Risk, Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s NL, A1B 3X5, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Despite process safety and ethical decision making being recognized priorities in many chemical companies, process safety incidents continue to occur with unfortunate regularity. In order to understand why such incidents keep occurring, and to prevent future accidents from happening, it is important to study the decision-making habits of people employed at chemical companies, and to inform students of the difference between the influences of ethics and behavioral ethics in process safety decision making. This study seeks to determine how senior chemical engineering students approach reasoning through process safety scenarios through the use of a mixed methods study. This study found that four out of the five students who participated in the study demonstrated post-conventional reasoning, and the remaining student showed conventional reasoning based on the quantitative analysis of their responses. Students showed mostly post-conventional reasoning in their responses based on a qualitative analysis; however, through comparison of these results it was found that the moral schema students were classified as was not always truly representative of their moral reasoning. |
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| Keywords: | Students assessment Mixed-methods study Ethics Students perception Senior undergraduate |
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